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The law unsealed
The law unsealed: or, A practical exposition of the Ten Commandments With a resolution of several momentous questions and cases of conscience. By the learned, laborious, faithful servant of Jesus Christ, Mr. James Durham, late minister of the Gospel at Glasgow.
Glasgow: printed by Robert Sanders, 1676
AN EXPOSITION OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, Delivered in several LECTURES. › Preface
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1, Any affirmative Precept binds to present practise, when the duty required tends to Gods glory, unto which every thing should be done (as 1 Corinth▪ 10. 31.) and when the omission of the duty may dishonour him.
2. When it tends to others edification, and omitting will some way stumble and offend.
3. When some special Providences meet and concur, to give opportunity for such a duty; as for instance, the giving of Aims when we have it, and some indigent person offers, whose necessity calls for it, Gal. 6. 10. So when secrecy for prayer is offered, (and no other more necessary duty at that time is called for) which we are to watch unto, Col. 4. 2. or when we meet with some special occasion or Dispensation, pointing out to us this or that as a duty called for, such a Providence invites us to the practise of that duty: for though Providences will not make these things to become duties which are not duties, yet they will serve to time and circumstantiate duties that lye on us, by virtue of affirmative Precepts.
3. When some special Providences meet and concur, to give opportunity for such a duty; as for instance, the giving of Aims when we have it, and some indigent person offers, whose necessity calls for it, Gal. 6. 10. So when secrecy for prayer is offered, (and no other more necessary duty at that time is called for) which we are to watch unto,